Author and facilitation expert Kate Sutherland presented Barefoot Facilitation at April’s DwD. Guided by appreciative interviews and dialogue questions, participants explored the landscape of facilitating where needs emerge, unbidden, for the benefit of groups and organizations we might serve. Humans are going through a massive transitional period. This “Great Turning” is calling for collective intelligence, […]
Author: Peter Jones
What is the True Nature of Partnership?
March’s DwD session was hosted by Mary Pickering of the Toronto Atmospheric Fund. What is the true nature of “partnership”? Funders want it, social innovation demands it and professionals now “broker” it. With the rising clamor to establish partnerships within and across organizations to get people working together more effectively, the time has come to […]
Healing Wicked Problems in Health
Can rethinking challenges together break through our most compelling health design problems? February’s DwD held an open session for health and design professionals from across sectors in the community. Paolo Korre, Design Consultant at Mount Sinai Hospital, and Peter Jones hosted about 30 people from a diverse range of roles and sectors attended (starting off […]
On Building Culture through Participatory Design
Guest post by Leah Snyder of Mixed Bag Mag When Gelareh Saadatpajouh, Programs Coordinator at Toronto Design Offsite set out to facilitate Design with Dialogue’s TO DO session she decided to have our group explore, as she puts it: “Design processes, where plurality of indeterminate factors is approached together and in an ongoing manner, and […]
Building Culture through Participatory Design
What design practices facilitate the creation of culture? How do we build culture in a durable, intentional way? How do we learn and teach from design process itself? How have we learned to improvise or hack design practices so that we personalize design thinking with our own experience? How might we build on each other’s […]